Its publication was only limited to a few copies, and it is now extremely rare, although fortunately most of the images from it have been preserved online, and are widely available.

A significant amount of it also found its way into the introductory comic which was included with most versions of the first game, and even into official artwork for the game, although much of its content was unique. Since much of it is very early artwork, some of it does not fit in with the "canon" of the later video game series or the animated television series.

The book included early designs for characters and levels, and so how their designs had evolved since the original concept with Playmates Toys in 1991. The books also showed how the game illustrators were given instruction on how to draw the characters, and how the game sprites had evolved.